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Mac OS Ken: 05.01.2014

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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J.P. Morgan: Lower-Priced MacBook Air Opens Up $63B Potential for Apple The Street Sees MacBook Air Price Cuts as Eroding Windows-based PCs Report: Apple/GT Advance Sapphire Production Starts on a Small Scale Redditor iOSecure Explains Why Touch ID is Better Under iOS 7.1.1 Google Brings Native Versions of Docs and Sheets to iPad Apple Hires New Director of Renewable Energy From Above: The Apple Spaceship is Taking Shape : Learn Apple software, plus business and creative skills, from easy-to-follow video tutorials at .

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0:00.0

This is MacO-S-Kinn.

0:10.0

Money types are

0:10.0

money.

0:09.0

This is MacO-S-Kinn.

0:12.0

Money types are stoked about the lower priced air.

0:16.2

Arizona's leaking sapphire.

0:18.8

And look at how touch ID got better.

0:21.9

It's Thursday, May 1st, 2014. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS

0:28.0

Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine putting Apple and tech news in focus

0:35.1

EY E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E

0:38.0

Chart magazine available for iOS newsstand now. Something starts today. Can't remember what? It has said big

0:48.8

things come in small packages and they apparently also come with smaller price tags.

0:53.7

The joke was made here yesterday that with the introduction of an $899 Macbook Air, Apple can finally

0:59.6

say it has a laptop for under $1,000 with a straight face. That's because while the company technically

1:05.9

had a laptop under 10 Benjamin's, it was only one Washington under 10 Benjamin's. That's $1 under $1,000.1,000 for those of you who don't speak U.S. currency slang.

1:18.0

One might think the company would take some kind of hit by upping the laptop's specs modestly

1:22.2

while lowering its prices fairly drastically.

1:26.0

They may however make that up in volume.

1:28.5

Apple and Cider had JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall issuing a note to clients on Wednesday, wherein he said by dropping the entry-level

1:35.9

MacBook Air price by $100, Apple has let itself into a new and massive $63 billion per year notebook market. Was it not already there?

1:50.4

Well there was in notebooks but it wasn't in in the notebooks sweet spot in Hall's estimation.

1:55.1

The piece says the Dells, HPs, and Lenovos of the world, traditional Windows-based laptops,

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